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Happy to see our PhD alumni connecting at the annual ISI Delhi conference at Delhi, India.

Congratulations Jeonghyeok Kim on your excellent research being selected to the top 5 education research for 2024 according to Fordham Institute

Shout out to our alumnus Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel for being selected as the new W.R. Maxwell Chair in Economics Dalhousie University ! This is a lifetime appointment for the awardee's tenure in recognition of exceptional contribution across research, teaching and service.

A rare day in #Houston when our students are making snow models instead of Economics models ! University of Houston

Exciting for me that my coauthor is presenting our paper co-authored with ⁦David Papell⁩ and ⁦swati singh⁩ at ⁦Hoover Institution⁩ seminar tomorrow . We propose two new monetary policy rules and compare their performance with other popular rules.

We thoroughly enjoyed watching the many presentations by researchers from UT-Austin Economics Rice Economics UH Economics Texas A&M Department of Economics Dallas Fed, as well as interacting with them over breaks, dinner, breakfast... and s'mores!

Thank you for hosting this year's Texas Camp Econometrics. Our students and faculty enjoyed the aesthetic venue and the deliberations.

This week, we had Gregorio Caetano & Carolina Caetano visit for the micro seminar. Gregorio presented new work on the gender gap in children's chores & its impact on skills. Carolina Caetano gave a lecture on the bunching-based identification strategy used in that paper.

This week at our Applied Micro Seminar, we hosted Professor Ellen Meara, who shared insights on recent trends in midlife mortality in the US.

The Dept's 2025 Best PhD Workshop Presentation Award is being awarded to Sebin B Nidhiri. This includes a nomination and funding to present at the SEA conference in Tampa this November. Congratulations ! Funding comes from a generous gift by our alumnus Santosh (Kumar) Gautam (PhD ’09).

Congratulations to Yabo Gwladys Vidogbena on defending her thesis last Friday ! She will be joining PennPSC for a postdoc. Here, she is pictured with Willa Friedman and Aimee Chin, (members of her 4 member committee also including Fan Wang and Sharon Wolf (@penn) )

The 2024-25 Dr. Walter J. Primeaux Jr. and Natalie A. Primeaux Scholarship is being awarded to Sterre Kuipers & Javier Rivera. This scholarship is awarded by the Graduate Committee to the 4th yr student whose research is most promising and has made most progress. Congratulations !

Second time at #PAA Again learned so much, met amazing researchers, and was thrilled to receive feedback from professors whose work I’ve long admired! #PAA2025

Congratulations to Yujie Zhang on defending her thesis on natural disasters and human capital. She will be joining PennPSC for a postdoc ! Here, she is pictured with her committee Elaine Liu, Aimee Chin, and virtually with Fan Wang & Minhaj Mahmud (Asian Development Bank)